Presidents Day Weekend Construction

The main entrance and driveway to the hospital are closed from Friday (2/16) at 9 pm through Monday (2/19) at 5 pm. The primary entrance to the hospital will be the Hunnewell Building’s main entrance on Longwood Avenue and will also be used to access the Emergency Department, and the main entrance to Enders on Longwood Avenue will be open for access to the Emergency Department from 6 am - 8 pm. For urgent patient arrivals, emergency and handicap vehicles can get to the Emergency Department through the ambulance bay on Binney Street.

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Research & Innovation

For more than a century, orthopedic surgeons and investigators at Children’s Hospital Boston have played a vital role in advancing the field of musculoskeletal research. We’ve developed breakthrough treatments and major advances for lower limb and hip problems, as well as for scoliosis, polio, tuberculosis and traumas to the hand and upper extremities.

Our pioneering research helps answer the most pressing questions in pediatric orthopedics today—to provide children with the most innovative care available.

In Boston Children’s Orthopedic Center we take great pride in our basic science and clinical research leaders, who are recognized throughout the world for their achievements. Our orthopedic research team includes:

full-time basic scientists

28 clinical investigators

a team of research coordinators and statisticians

Orthopedic basic science laboratories

Working in Boston Children’s labs are some of the leading musculoskeletal researchers in the nation. Our labs include:

Children speak about what it's like to be a medical research subject

View a video of a day in the life of Boston Children's Clinical and Translational Study Unit, through the eyes of children who are “giving back” to science.

Boston Children's Hip Program's unique insight and expertise

Boston Children’s Child and Adult Hip Preservation Program enjoys a special degree of effectiveness—not just because of our long tradition of excellence in pediatric hip care, but also because we follow our patients through adulthood. This gives us a unique perspective, insight and expertise—we can track how the hip works in each age group, how the problems evolve, and how the hip’s function changes over time in adult patients who’ve had treatment in childhood.

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Boston Children’s is so much more than a hospital—it’s a community of researchers, clinicians, administrators, support staff, innovators, teachers, patients and families, all working together to make the impossible possible.
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